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ECONOMIC PRESSURE.

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96.At an earlier stage of the development of wents in

China, on our recommendation the Advisory Committee on

Trading and Blockade reported on the value of a blockade

of Carton (C.I.D. Paper No.661--3).

27. Our attention has been drawn to telegrams from China

indicating that already the Chinese Nationalist Covernment

is apprehensive in regard to the econoric pressure which

can be exerted by British barks. We recommend that the

Trading and Blockade Committee should be assembled at

once to report on all the possibilities of economic

pressure on the Nationalist Government of China in the

conditions which row exist,hether by international

action or, in the last resort, by the British alone.

Although British action perhaps deserves examination

in case we may be driven to it, we would emphasize the

great importance of securing intemational co-aperation

in any steps that may be taken to bring economic pressure

to bear.

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